Word: benjamin
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...American artist ever had a more extreme case of Casablancitis than Kitaj. His work harps on the theme of displacement, loss, nostalgia. You get it at full strength in The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin), 1972-73, with its diagonal mass of cafa habituas like creatures clinging insecurely to a reef-the whole structure, it seems, being undermined by a weird red figure among the red chairs in the foreground, indifferently wielding a pick...
...pipe dream. Technology, whose image has suffered under a century's worth of dictators, Orwellian novels and a long cold war, is becoming a key to the revitalization of U.S. politics. The 1990s are witnessing technology's re-emergence in the healthier role foreseen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as an enabler and propagator of democracy...
...expect much testing. The organization's deficit stands at more than $4.5 million. The search for a successor to ousted executive director Benjamin Chavis has not even begun. (Chavis was fired last year for agreeing to pay more than $300,000 in N.A.A.C.P. funds to a female former employee who complained of sexual harassment; he made the agreement without the approval of the board of directors.) Last week Stephanie Rones, a former deputy legal counsel, filed a suit that accused Gibson, Chavis and four other N.A.A.C.P. officials of knowingly tolerating discrimination against women employees. Rones is seeking...
...five years old and had just defrosted," Shanies grumbles, "They must think that all New Yorkers eat fatty, disgusting stuff. Some of that stuff does exist, but that's not what we eat all the time,...and the real stuff certainly doesn't taste like that." Shanies's friend, Benjamin W. Chauncey '98, isn't so picky. According to Chauncey, "The roast beef was pretty good." However, Chauncey does not call New York home, thus calling his reliability on the subject into question...
TheNAACP's annual board meeting tomorrow is likely to be the organization's most tumultuous to date, and could result in the ouster of its board chairman, William Gibson, says TIME National correspondent Jack White. Gibson, a supporter of former NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis, has been accused of misusing funds and doing nothing to stop sexual harassment of some employees. Chavis was fired last August amid charges that he used NAACP money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. The chief rival for Gibson's job is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The organization...